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WorldFest HoustonThe Festival runs April 16-25, 2021 - Ten Great Days in April! @worldfest #Worldfest #FilmFestival #Festival #Houston #Texas GET A FEELING OF THE AMBIANCE WATCH OUR PHOTO GALLERY You are cordially invited to be part of the upcoming 54th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival! The oldest Independent Film Festival in the whole wide world! WorldFest gave first awards to giants of the film industry, including Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Ridely Scott, John Lee Hancock, Guillermo del Toro, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and literally hundreds more! We are happy to accept Online FilmFreeway Screeners! We have Big LG 110" Digital Screens for our juries! Not little laptops. Since we show our Remi Winners on big Cinemark Theatre screens, it seems right that we look at your production on a big flat screen! We do also accept DVD, BLURAY or USB FLASH/PEN/JUMP DRIVE for juding and for Theater Screening. Region Zero, please! (If you win a Remi, you may be screened on big Cinemark Theatre 60-foot screens to 600+ theater audience!! So we need a BluRay or Jump Drive for the DCP screening! Large juries view your entry on a big digital screen, not a little laptop! {Screenplay entries must be bound}! We will personally confirm your entry's arrival. We will personally let you know the jury results, and if you win a Remi Award, we will invite you to attend the 53rd WorldFest, and you will receive a complimentary $1,000 VIP Platinum Festival Pass! We do prefer Premieres! We discovered Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, The Coen Brothers, Coppola and David Lynch, with their Premieres - those many new festivals did not! Therefore WorldFest requires a Premiere of some level, World, USA, South West! If your entry if it has been all over, we reserve those screening slots for true Premieres, but you could still win a Remi Award.
WorldFest was founded over 54 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the World. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968. It was founded by award-winning producer/director Hunter Todd to present a quality film festival for the Independent filmmakers. Hunter Todd has been honored with more than 115 international awards for creative excellence in film production, and he has been the producer, director, writer and/or cameraman on more than 300 motion picture and video productions. He has served as the member of the International Jury on more than 27 world-wide film festivals, from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Korea, Ireland and Bulgaria. The mission/vision statement of WorldFest is ~ To recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. All members of the WorldFest staff are filmmakers. ![]() The 53rd 2020 WorldFest-Houston Major Remi Awards!
In what would have been The 15th Annual Panorama Italia at this year’s WorldFest 53rd edition, None Like Us (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfango de Biasi (who had been expected to attend) was awarded Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress in a triple play ...! None Like Us is the delectable love story set in Turin, in the 80’s where eternal optimist high school teacher, Betty Bottone (Sarah Felberbaum) comes to search for true love with the handsome cad, University Professor Umberto Fioravanti (Alessandro Preziosi) father to Romeo, (Leonardo Pazzagli) a new & troublesome student in her class. Betty keeps believing that love will ultimately conquer all. With a talented ensemble cast and a near record number of WorldFest top actor nominations None Like Us won the Grand (Best of Show) in a close race among the following films:
The other Special Jury Awards (SJA) top contenders in Feature Films at WorldFest were: Asfixia (Mexico) by Kenya Márquez, Bullet Trip (Japan) by Nozomu Kasagi, Driveways (USA) by Andrew Ahn, Good Game: The Beginning (Turkey) by Umut Aral, Tokyo Offerings Flower (Japan) by Masaya Kato, The Perfect Patient ~ Quick (Sweden) by Mikael Håfström, Raising Buchanan (USA) by Bruce Dellis, Out Stealing Horses (Norway ) by Hans Petter Moland and last but not least, Song of Love (Inner Mongolia) by Peng Jun. WorldFest 2020 Grand REMI Awards for other Major Categories:
LAVENDER Andrew Ball-Shaw, Director, Writer, UK
● BEST TELEVISION / CABLE / WEB PRODUCTION ● Charles - Antoine de Rouvre / Sophie Bocquillon, Writers Grand Angle Productions, Merignac, France
● BEST NEW MEDIA ● Colin Scheyen, Toronto, Canada
● BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO ● Theo Lindquist, Director ~ Los Angeles, CA. USA
● BEST SHORT SUBJECT ● Katherine Sainte Marie, Vista, CA, USA
● BEST STUDENT FILM ● (Tie) CLARITY Roy Arwas, Los Angeles, CA, USA
THINGS FALLING APART Daniel Loepfe, Zurich, Switzerland
● BEST COMMERCIAL ● NHS - STAY HOME NOW St. Lukes, London, UK
● BEST MUSIC VIDEO ● Hyun Seung Seo, Director, YG Entertainment, S. Korea
Norman Ray Fitts, Houston, TX. USA
The Best International Feature, sponsored by the Russian-American Business Publication, went to BULLET TRIP (Japan) directed by Nozomu Kasagi- When young Shinjuku business man, Noboru, and his girlfriend, Noriko take an unlikely trip of 800 km. nonstop to the port town of Mihonoseki, strange things occur to re-set their life together onto a different track.
The full detailed WorldFest Remi Awards Winners list will soon be available online at www.worldfest.org
Discussions with Cinemark, Westin, Memorial City Mall and other key partners are taking place to plan a possible Autumn unspooling of WorldFest-Houston 53rd Annual Independent International Film Festival. We will keep you updated.
Dates for WorldFest #54 are April 16-25th. 2021. Entries officially open August 1st, 2020. Main deadline is December 15, 2020. Final Brick-Wall Entry Deadline with late fee penalties is January 15th, 2021.
WorldFest history: WorldFest, founded as an International Film Society in August 1961, became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April 1968 and has a long list of “discovered” film greats such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone, Atom Egoyan, Randal Kleiser, Ang Lee, Robert Rodriguez, the Coen Brothers, John Lee Hancock, Randal Kleiser, Francis Ford Coppola and many others from their beginning efforts for film submissions early in their careers. Multi award-winning producer/director, Hunter Todd, founded this film festival to honor all categories of film and video production continuing his long dedication of “Discovery,” spotlighting emerging Independent filmmakers as “the Spielbergs & Ang Lees of tomorrow.”
WorldFest’s mission is to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, validate brilliant abilities and promote future filmmaking in Texas as well as enhance cultural tourism for Houston and environs.
There were more than 4,500 category entries in all film and video categories; only 12-15% of submitted entries placed for WorldFest Remi awards.
The WorldFest Remi Award is named for the brilliant artist, Frederic Remington, who captured the Spirit of Texas and the West with his remarkable paintings and sculptures.
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